Well, I have waited 7 LONG weeks with my main tank fallow and finally added my firefish from my QT back into his big home. He is the only survivor from a serious ich outbreak in early December. He did very well in QT as I treated him with cupramine. I finally decided that it was time to get him back to the main tank so I slowly acclimated him even though I kept the two tanks' parameters almost identical. He went in last night and seemed very happy. I can't tell you how nice it is to see fish in the main tank again. It was very frustrating doing a lot of maintenance on a tank when there were no fish and only some shrooms and ricordias in there.

Anyway, I'm hoping for the best. My next plan is to get a pair of percula clowns and get them into QT for the next 4 weeks. It was tough losing my fish the first time, but hopefully everything will go well from here on.

Kudos for waiting the whole 7 weeks... what a hard thing to do... it's always so tempting to skip a week or two. Any QT time has me biting at the bit, of course the wait makes life much more pleasant when you end up with a healthy tank.

Glad you have your firefish is back living the good life again and here's to hoping you get some good healthy clowns to add next!

Yes, it was hard to do, but I am hoping everything will be good from here on out.

When I first started into this hobby I did not know about QT and got lucky for a few months until a coral beauty brought ich into my tank. The rest was history. I will always QT from now on. Thanks to everyone on AA for teaching me about QT too . . . I never knew it was the "right" way to introduce fish until I found this site.